The next great depression will be worldwide and it will be deeper and more chaotic than anything ever seen before. When the whole world suffers it will blame the U.S. for it and everyone will want a piece of America for retribution.

The Nations of Russia, China and Iran, which will lead the Muslim nations in the Mid East and Africa, will gang up on America which will be even more devastated financially than most nations. The American forces will succumb to a massive attack that takes down most of our electronic equipment and destroys our high tech advantage.

The war that follows will become a mostly conventional affair fought on American soil. A massive invasion by millions of enemy troops will follow who will commit every war crime imaginable on the American people. The invasion will come after internal conflict, caused by financial devastation, has taken a high death toll among Americans fighting among themselves over diminishing resources.

The invading nations will see this as their best opportunity to destroy America permanently and gain valuable natural resources at the same time. This is why it will be mostly conventional after a possible limited nuclear strike to disable our military resources and infrastructure. To make matters worse, these invaders will be aided by elements within the U.S. government who will cooperate with these ground forces.

The battles that follow will be fought mostly by local and state militias reinforced by the few remaining active duty soldiers that escaped annihilation in the opening days of conflict. It will become a guerilla war fought in every corner of every state in CONUS. Alaska and Hawaii will be cut off and allowed to wither until they surrender.

The war will last for years and most large cities and towns will be destroyed to eliminate any resources that partisan fighters can use. The only civilians that will escape detention and death by enemy forces will be those that are hidden in rural areas and dug in deep to prevent detection. Any food will have to be grown in small isolated plots hidden from enemy forces. Every day will be a fight for survival as the number of American forces dwindle.

American forces will survive by becoming very mobile and remaining on the move. Small attacks that chip away at enemy forces will be the primary tactic. Only when an unstoppable outside force arrives to reinforce Americans will the tide of war turn. The enemy will ultimately be driven back and Americas borders secured but the cost of victory will be very high and the population will be greatly reduced.

Is this scenario a possibility? It becomes more likely every day that we proceed on our current path and if history is any indicator it could become a reality. Americans are oblivious to the possibility of any such turn of events but it could very well happen within a decade. The inability of Americans to accept reality and the need to continue living in the comfortable cocoon of illusion they desire will end in tragedy very soon. No amount of hopeful thinking will change events that require positive action. The lack of critical thinking ability will doom the U.S. to new depths of despair before a new nation will arise that appreciates our heritage and the sacrifices of those that came before us. Hopefully this is a lesson we will not have to learn a second time.

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It is the final backup plan for a lot of us in the case of a disaster. A generous supply of cold hard cash to buy our way out of trouble, pick up as many last-minute supplies as possible or to acquire resources that are unavailable to anyone with a credit card in a world where the electricity is out and the internet is down. We frequently talk about having cash for emergencies, but how much cash should you have if the grid goes down? What will you be able to purchase with your doomsday supply and how long would it last in the first place?

One of our readers made a recommendation the other day to have between $500 and $1000 in cash for your bug out bag and at the time it prompted me to consider again if this amount makes sense. In my personal preparedness plans I have a supply of cash but I am always trying to figure out if what I have is enough or too much. Will it even matter when TEOTWAWKI comes and how can I best use the cash I have to survive?

Why do you need to have cash on hand?

You want to know the time when you will need cash the most? It will be when you can’t get to it. How many of you right now have no cash at all in your wallets or purses? I used to be the same way. I never had cash and relied on the ready availability of cash machines or most often the ability to pay for virtually everything with a debit card. How convenient is it to never have to make change or worry if you have enough cash when with the swipe of a card your bank account funds are at your disposal. This is a great technological advance, but the problem is that this requires two things to be functioning. First, the card readers and ATM machines require electricity. If the electricity is out, neither of these two machines works. The second thing is a network connection. If the network is down, even with electricity the transaction won’t work and you can’t pay for goods or get cash from your bank.

In a disaster, one of the first casualties is electricity. This doesn’t have to be due to some cosmic solar flare that has rendered the grid useless, it could be as destructive and common as a fire, flood, earthquake, tornado or winter storm. It could also be from simple vandalism or perhaps terrorism. A major fiber optic cable was cut in Arizona back in February leaving businesses without the ability to accept payments. When the electricity is out, you aren’t going to be able to access your cash via the normal means so having a supply on hand is going to be a huge advantage for you in the right circumstances.

Even if there is no natural disaster, you are still at the mercy of your bank. What if your bank closes or there is a bank holiday declared because of some economic crisis. In any of these situations, if you are dependent on access to money that is controlled by either technology or physical limitations like a bank office it is wise to have a backup plan should either of those two conditions prevent you from getting cash.

What is cash good for in a crisis?

I think there are two levels to consider when it comes to keeping cash on hand. There is the bug out scenario mentioned above where you would have some “walking around money” to take care of relatively minor needs like food, a hotel or gas. The second is for a longer or more widespread unavailability of funds. Let’s say the economy tanks and the price of everything skyrockets but stores are still open for business. Your bank is one of the casualties, but you had a few thousand dollars of cash stored away that you could use to purchase food, gas and necessary preparedness items for your family. In this scenario, the government is still backing the fiat currency and vendors are still accepting it as a form of payment. For this scenario having a few thousand dollars makes sense.

But what if we have an extreme event where the currency is devalued and is essentially worthless? Your thousands of dollars might only buy you a loaf of bread. Don’t believe it can happen? It did to the Weimar Republic after WWI so it can happen again. That isn’t to say it will, but you should balance how much money you have squirreled away under your mattress with supplies you can purchase now that will last and keep you alive during that same event. My goal is to make sure I have the basics I need to survive at home for several months to a year without needing to spend any cash. This way, if the money is worthless, I still have what my family needs to survive.

If we have a regional disaster where you can bug out to a safer location, your cash should serve you well. Of course if you are in a safer location, assuming electricity was working your access to bank funds should still be working. If this is truly the end of the world as we know it, how long will that cash you have be worth anything?

How much cash do you need?

So the million dollar question is how much cash should you have if the grid goes down? I always try to plan for the worst case scenario. My rationale is that if I am prepared for the end of the world as we know it, I should be just as prepared for any lesser disaster or crisis I may be faced with. The way I see it is if we do have a disaster, you aren’t going to be using that cash most likely to pay your mortgage, student loans, rent, or your credit card bills. Cash will go to life saving supplies and this will need to be used in the earliest hours of any crisis before all of the goods are gone or the cash is worthless. Once people realize for example that the government has been temporarily destroyed, they aren’t going to want to take your $500 for a tank of gas. They are going to want guns, food or bullets.

I also don’t see you using your cash to buy passage to another country, but that’s just me. I know there is a historical precedent for that, but I am not planning on that being something I realistically attempt with my family. I am also not planning on bribing any officials with cash either. My cash is for last-minute necessities and then it is back into the hopefully safe confines of my home to plan the next steps. For that I have only a couple of thousand dollars in cash stored away. I figure if I need more than that I didn’t plan well. Also, I would rather spend my money on supplies like long-term storable food and equipment than having a large horde of cash. With that amount, I figure I can make one last run if needed or be able to weather any short-term emergency when I can’t access cash.

What is the best place to hide cash in your home?

I wrote a post awhile back titled, How to hide your money where the bankers won’t find it that had lots of good ideas for reasonably safe places you could store cash. As I said in that article, you do have risks involved with keeping cash in your house, but I think you have just the same, if not worse risks relying on banks to keep your money safe and give it back when you want it. There are a million places to hide cash, but you can get tricky and buy a fake shaving cream safe to store several hundred dollars in there. Just be careful you don’t throw that away. There are other options like wall clocks with a hidden compartment inside that might be less prone to getting tossed in the trash. Your imagination is really all that is needed for a good hiding place, but I would caution you that you don’t store cash in too many places or you could forget where you hid it. This happened to me when I had hidden some cash behind an item that I ended up giving to my daughter because I thought I didn’t need it anymore. Imagine my surprise when she came into the living room and said, “Dad, I found an envelope with a lot of money in it”. I gave her a twenty for a reward…

What about you? How much cash do you think you need to have on hand and what do you plan on spending it on if the grid goes down?

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Mysterious cases of locally-acquired malaria are popping up, coinciding with the release of millions of mosquitos from a Gates funded company and the new Gates-funded malaria vaccine.

A new potentially manufactured health crisis is on the horizon—just in time for a malaria vaccine funded by Bill Gates to hit the market and what seems like minutes after a Gates-funded company released millions of genetically modified mosquitos into the same states where cases occurred.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, five cases of malaria—four in Texas and one in Florida—were recently confirmed. This is the first time the “potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease” has been locally acquired in 20 years.

Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes.

What’s purely coincidental is that 750 million genetically modified (GM) mosquitos in 2022 were released in the Florida Keys, and in 2021, GM mosquitos were also released in Texas.

This followed an earlier release of 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys by British biotech firm Oxitec to combat transmission of diseases like Zika and dengue fever, both of which had vaccines in development and accompanying headlines prepping potential customers with fear.

In its 2022 letter approving Oxitec’s plan, the Environmental Protection Agency approved the additional release of up to 2.4 million GM adult male mosquitoes and eggs in Monroe County, Florida, and several counties in California.

The EPA said Oxitec’s mosquito release would take place between then and April 30, 2024. The bottom line is that hundreds of millions of mosquitos have been released into the environment for absolutely no good reason.

The mosquito OX5034 was supposedly altered to produce female offspring that die in the larval stage—long before they are large enough to bite or spread disease. However, like COVID-19 vaccines, this is entirely experimental. We were told COVID-19 vaccines were safe, prevented transmission, and worked—none of which was true.

It must be a coincidence that from 2003-2023 there wasn’t one case of Malaria spread by mosquitos and then came a Bill Gates-funded company to solve a problem that didn’t exist, and suddenly cases of malaria are occurring where mosquitos were released.

The solution? A Gates-funded vaccine called “RTS,S,” (no, that is not a type error) with an impressive 40% efficacy tested (once again) on defenseless children in Africa. Although it’s 30% below the World Health Organization’s required threshold for effectiveness, vaccines are the only pharmaceutical products with no adverse side effects—and this vaccine is predicted to save thousands of lives at the expense of none.

The Gates Foundation invested hundreds of millions of dollars in fighting malaria over the last 20 years.

“Over the past two decades, the collective efforts of the global malaria community have dramatically reduced the global burden of malaria, but progress has stalled in recent years,” wrote Philip Welkhoff, the director for malaria at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in an email to VOX.

Two other malaria vaccines are in the pipeline: the University of Oxford’s R21 malaria vaccine and an mRNA malaria vaccine that has already been tested in six-month-old infants.

With the wild success of COVID-19 vaccines, the rapid approval process, no accountability, and the ability to have gene therapy products skirt by under the classification of a “vaccine” (which requires far fewer studies), it’s a “win.”

Of course, we have hydroxychloroquine, which has easily and effectively prevented and treated malaria for 60 years, but we can’t have people resorting to cheap and effective drugs associated with little to no adverse events to treat their ailments.

If you have the time and want more of the backstory, look into how mosquitoes have been used and engineered for biological warfare.

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When it comes to being prepared for a SHTF event, preppers are focused on threats from natural disasters to nuclear wars, EMPs, and devastating cosmic events.  The situations that people can focus on and become obsessed with preparing for and unpredictable and vary widely. There’s no way that one person or family could be completely prepared for every single type of event. So, most people choose one or several related events they believe are imminent and prepare as best they can for those.

But the less talked about threat that will be overwhelming no matter what the situation is that arises, is population density. For example, according to this map of population density by county shows that roughly two-thirds of the U.S population is located in the Eastern half of the United States. In fact, according to recent reports by the U.S. Census Bureau (2010 data), approximately half the population resided in just 146 counties out of 3000 counties in the United States.

That’s right. The biggest threat to your safety and the safety of your family is in fact, other people. They aren’t “bad” people out to get you. Some of them would likely give the shirt off the back to help others in normal circumstances. But in a SHTF situation, people just like you who are doing what they need to do to provide for their families can be a threat. Scared, and willing to do anything to get away from immediate danger, large numbers of these people can be the difference between life and death for your family.

So, when SHTF, how do you mitigate population density to increase your ability to keep yourself and your family safe? The easiest way is to plan to avoid other people as much as possible. The problem that most people run into during an emergency or SHTF situation is they are unprepared, and they panic. When you sense danger, the first instinct for most people is to flee. Sure, some people will naturally react with fight instead of flight, but the majority of people will flee first and fight only when cornered.

The best way to be prepared to avoid the crowds of desperate people is to know which places to avoid going when SHTF. We’ve listed some examples below:

1. Downtown

It goes without saying that downtown areas of any city should be avoided. This is especially true in mid to large cities where lack of regular sanitation services will create ideal conditions for diseases. The risk of rioting, looting, and violent attacks is also greater in downtown areas. City dwellers are statistically less prepared for a SHTF event as many families live paycheck to paycheck with very little stockpiled supplies.

In addition, because population density is highest in these areas, stores and other sources for supplies will be quickly cleaned out. Many city residents depend on public transportation on a daily basis and are less likely to have access to a vehicle to flee the city. Mass numbers of people in these areas will be desperately seeking food, water, and medical supplies, as well as transportation out of the city.

2. Main Roads, Intersections, and Freeways

If you are planning to bug out to an area outside of the city, or if you are caught away from home, it may seem like the shortest route is the best course of action. But, keep in mind that main roads and busy intersections will quickly become overwhelmed with people trying to flee just like you are.

Most people only know one or two ways to get out of the city and these are usually main roads. Those who are looking to steal supplies will see main roads and intersections as prime locations to ambush unwary travelers. Get a map of your area now and plan several routes out of the city and from work to home that use side roads rather than highways and state routes.

3. Bottleneck Points

A bottleneck can be any area that a majority of people must travel in order to get out of a cul de sac, neighborhood, city, county, or state. In most cases, this will be things such as bridges, overpasses, underpasses, freeway ramps, etc. If several hundred or thousands of people are fleeing the same area, and everyone must cross the same bridge to get out of town, that will quickly become a bottleneck point.

The same is true for any areas where there is only one road going in or out. Avoid these areas at all costs and look for alternative ways to get through or cross, even if it means taking a longer way around or traveling in a nontraditional way (motorcycle, private plane, bicycle, on foot, etc.).

4. Hospitals

It may seem weird to see hospitals on a list of places to avoid following a SHTF event because one would think this would be a place to find help. The reason to avoid hospitals if at all possible is because most people, especially those that are injured, will flock to them. Even people who aren’t injured may head for the hospitals to get help for family members who have been injured.

Emotions in this area will be high and the risk of violence is greater as people lose control. In addition, patients who are ill and/or patients dying from lack of resources will increase the risk of rampant infection and disease. The hospital and surrounding areas will be a petri dish environment for viruses and bacteria. With medical resources limited, you’ll want to avoid getting sick to increase your odds of long-term survival.

5. Prisons and Surrounding Areas

This one should be a no brainer. If there is a prison in your area or along the route to your bug out location (BOL), you’ll want to avoid the area as much as possible.

During a SHTF event, it’s likely that guards and staff may abandon their posts to care for their families which increases the likelihood that violent prisoners can escape and be on the roads. These prisoners will come out into the chaos without any supplies, they will be desperate to survive and could be more willing to use violence to commandeer your supplies or vehicle.

6. Police Stations and Military Bases

Like with hospitals, it may seem counterintuitive to avoid police stations and military bases following a SHTF event. Police and military are supposed to serve and protect citizens, right? But although it may seem like going to these locations would be a safer alternative, in most cases it will be a waste of precious time and may in fact get you killed or locked up instead.

Police stations and military bases will be among the most secure buildings. They will be heavily guarded, and they will not be opening their doors to the mass numbers of people who show up. Crowds outside these areas will be frustrated and angry at not being granted protection. The last thing you want is to step into the middle of that crowd with your BOB of supplies, food, and water.

7. Shelters or FEMA Camps

Although shelters are designed to help those people who find themselves without a place to sleep or food to eat, most shelters are understaffed and operating at or above capacity even in normal times. Homeless shelters and food banks will be quickly overrun by mass numbers of people. Some may be forced to close the doors to newcomers within days of a SHTF event.

These shelters and any publicized FEMA camps that spring up will have very poor conditions. Supplies will be rationed, tempers will be high, and violence will be rampant. As more people arrive, and conditions worsen, the buildings and surrounding areas will quickly become breeding grounds for infection and disease.

8. Grocery Stores and Shopping Plazas

For people who are not prepared, their first instinct will be to find food, water, and supplies. Humans are creatures of habit and thus many will flock to local grocery stores and shopping plazas and begin looting for needed supplies.

These areas will be picked clean within less than 24 hours of a SHTF event. Those that are left there will be the most desperate and scared for their lives. These crowds are unpredictable and often violent.

9. Gas Stations, Auto Parts, and Convenience Stores

The reason to avoid gas stations, auto parts, and convenience stores is similar to that of other stores and shopping areas. Desperate people are going to flock to the first places they think of to find supplies to get out of the area. Those trying to get of the city will want to try to gas up and/or get.

For all but those people who were quick to get on the road, getting gas will be nearly impossible. Lines at these places will be long, tempers will be high, and violence will be much more likely, especially when pumps run dry and shelves are bare.

10. Hardware and Sporting Goods Stores

One thing that people will be searching for when SHTF is guns, ammo, and other items to use for protection. Since sporting goods and hardware stores carry a lot of these items, these stores will be hot spots for looting. If you don’t already have your weapons ready when SHTF, you’re better off to look around your home for items you can use, rather than try for a quick trip to a hardware or sporting goods store.

11. Banks, Check-Cashing, & Pawn Shops

One thing just about everyone who isn’t prepared in advance will be looking to get first is accessing to cash. For this reason, banks, check cashing or loan offices, and pawn shops should be avoided following a SHTF event. This is where large numbers of people will flock toward first.

Many people in these areas will become trapped, unable to access their money, either because computers are down or because cash reserves were already depleted. When desperate people can’t get access to cash that they believe will help them get needed supplies, things will get ugly.

12. Large Shopping Malls and Public Squares

When things get chaotic just before a SHTF event, the last place you will want to be is in a public square or large shopping mall. These places can quickly become a gathering place for desperate, angry people. Rioting, looting, and violence will be high in these areas so it’s best to avoid them if possible.

13. Large Social Gatherings and Public Events

If you even suspect that things around you are getting chaotic. If you sense civil or economic unrest or have recognized other precursors to a SHTF event, you will want to avoid large social gatherings and public events. These events draw large crowds of people on the same date and time. Events or gathering that are tradition or annual events that can be predicted or are widely publicized are more dangerous. These are prime target events for terrorists.

What to do Instead:

Now that you know what places to avoid going when SHTF, here are some things you can do to make sure you can avoid these places and still have a good chance of surviving:

Starting today, make it a habit to keep your gas tank at least 3/4 full at all times. Take steps to properly store additional gasoline in approved containers so that you can fuel up at home and skip the last-minute trip to the gas station on your way out of town.

Follow a regular maintenance schedule for your vehicle to keep it in top running condition at all times. Proactively make vehicle repairs so that your risk of a breakdown is less when SHTF. Stockpile spare parts such as belts, spark plugs, wiper blades, washer fluid, transmission fluid, antifreeze, brake fluid, and engine oil so you can replenish as needed without that trip to the auto parts store.

Create safe storage places where you can begin to stockpile emergency cash so that you have it on hand when SHTF and do not need to make any last-minute runs to a bank, ATM, or pawnshop for cash.

Conduct a weapons inventory of any guns, ammo, knives, and personal self-defense weapons (mace, stun gun, etc.). Be sure to consider any other potential items (ball bats, shovels, chains, etc.) that could be used for weapons and protection during a SHTF event. Know what you have on hand and train yourself and family in how to use it if needed for protection.

Clearly mark danger zones in advance on a map or maps of your local area and surrounding areas. Plan several different escape routes so that you can quickly change course if needed due to unexpected danger or obstacles. Identify and plan to use alternative routes out of town including logging roads, railroad tracks, and power line easements if needed to avoid danger zones.

Locate and clearly map out any sources of fresh water that won’t be the first thought for others such as small lakes, ponds, private or public swimming pools, creeks, and rivers. Include a hand water pump and collapsible water jug in your BOB as well as a way to filter and boil water from these sources.

Stockpile lightweight food, ways to filter water, and medical suppliesso that you won’t be tempted to make a last run to grocery or other shopping areas. Create a system of hidden supply caches along your routes to your BOL so you can replenish supplies that are used, stolen, or confiscated along the way.

Planning a bug out can seem overwhelming. But the more you plan and prepare in advance, the more likely you will remember which places to avoid going when SHTF.

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“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”
~ George Carlin

While loyalty to self and truth is not slavery, allegiance to any country, government, or ruling class is slavery. Inherent in this thinking is the fact that believing or trusting any ruling individual or entity without absolute verification at every level, is the basis for societal destruction at the hands of the few due to blind obedience to falsely claimed authority. Lies and deceit are the tools of tyrants and come in the forms of outright deception to manipulative propaganda. These traits are always evident, but today they are completely overt, as lies and truth are both used in devious ways in order to gain compliance and control.

This can be seen in that a non-existent virus pandemic has been used to instill great fear in the unsuspecting minds of the masses to such an extent, that most have been willing to give up all normalcy and sanity in their lives and the lives of their families. They have due to false trust been duped into behavior that can only be described as psychotic in nature. This has led to voluntary self-imprisonment, isolation, business and job destruction, mask-wearing, travel immobilization, and total lockdowns. It has led to greater sickness, death, and economic devastation as well, all in the name of ‘health security and obedience to power at the expense of all freedom. This should serve as the final valuable lesson learned by even the most common of men because it should be obvious that relying on the state in any capacity whatsoever can only lead to an enslaved society dependent on a master class for its very existence and survival. This of course is what is sought; a communistic based technocratic ‘civilization’ controlled by the few.

Is this country facing the end of time? Are the people in this country oblivious to any reality or truth, or are they simply consumed by ignorance, passivity, cowardice, and mediocrity? Will this onslaught of tyranny by the controlling class and the politicians continue unabated, or will enough wake up in time to stand against the total decimation of their lives, their property, their freedom, and their land? What could possibly motivate the masses to voluntarily accept their own servitude, a servitude that can only lead to their imminent demise? 

Even the most simplistic life forms on this planet possess the basic instinct of self-defense, so why is it that the supposed most intelligent of all living beings can be controlled and brutalized to the point of extinction, without lifting a finger to protect their own interests? Today in America, the people are drowning in a pool of their own blood, while their chosen masters are feasting on the remains.

There is very little time left to change this course we are on today, as this plot toward the great reset of the world is close at hand. In the past when liberty has been threatened, some fought back and won, but most sat back and waited, hoping others would come to their rescue, and save them from themselves. Every time threats have come and gone, there was less freedom and much more control. Each and every tyrannical event brought an assault against liberty that remained long after any so-called ‘return to normal’ was expected.

‘Normal’ has been forever changing, meaning every new normal resulted in less freedom and more authoritarian measures. That is until today, as now we face an end to any freedom and a life of submission and enslavement. Unless and until the current ruling oligarchy is eliminated or weakened to the point of impotence, and by whatever means necessary, the tyranny will run its course until it has total control or the entire system collapses under its own weight.

Throughout history, kingdoms, states, and nations have come and gone. Empires reign, but always eventually fall.  After societal failure, a better system may be in place temporarily, as happened here in this country after the ousting of British rule, but due to power, greed, and weak and complacent populations, the collapse of societies has always been inevitable. This one is no different. The real question is how long will it last?

Considering the ‘assumed’ founding, this nation has only existed for a little over 240 years. Historically speaking, this is a very short time indeed, but the march toward a totalitarian end is near. We are now on the brink of that precipice, with one foot already dangling over the cliff. There will be no return to ‘normal’ or any notion of freedom unless a complete dismantling of this very flawed governing system is forthcoming. That can only happen if a majority of the people not only desire it but also are willing to take any and all risks to regain their own independence.

At this stage, our probable downfall will not be due to the few evil oligarchs that are perpetrating this fraud called a ‘virus pandemic,’ it will be due to a complete abandonment of self-responsibility by the people themselves. This truth has to be acknowledged before any relief is possible. So long as blame is spread wide in order to appease the feeble psyche of the pitiful masses, and no accountability for one’s own life and existence is accepted, then no resolution will be attainable.

We now live in a society that has lost its ability to function without rules. The herd is forever looking to find a master instead of looking to self. So long as this attitude is present in the majority, individual sovereignty will not prevail, and a population of order-takers and rule-followers will be the result. That cannot lead to freedom, but only to complete subjugation of the American people. Five hundred years ago, Étienne de La Boétie wrote (free pdf download) “The Politics of Obedience and The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude.” The people of this country have voluntarily given up their freedom, and in the process have become obedient serfs. In this passage below, he summed up the essence of voluntary slavery through obedient behavior.

“It amazes us to hear accounts of the valor that liberty arouses in the hearts of those who defend it; but who could believe reports of what goes on every day among the inhabitants of some countries, who could really believe that one man alone may mistreat a hundred thousand and deprive them of their liberty? Who would credit such a report if he merely heard it, without being present to witness the event? And if this condition occurred only in distant lands and were reported to us, which one among us would not assume the tale to be imagined or invented, and not really true? Obviously, there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that the country makes an effort to do anything for itself provided it does nothing against itself. It is, therefore, the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude.”

How many times have Americans criticized those in other lands for allowing tyrants to rule over them without rising up to protect their own liberty? How many times have those in this country condemned totalitarian monsters across the world, and called for them to be removed or killed? How many times have Americans cheered for aggressive war against other nations because they lived under brutal regimes? How many times have Americans bragged about being exceptional, and falsely declared that they are the freest people on earth? How many times has this American population allowed that same tyranny and brutality here at home and done nothing?

I can tell you, most all in this country are voluntarily allowing this takeover today, and are doing absolutely nothing to stop it. Civil disobedience and mass dissent would be enough to quell this onslaught of government lies, carnage, murder, and liberty destruction, but while you condemn others, you sit idle and watch your own freedom taken away without ever lifting a finger to stop it. Shame on all of you who refuse to disobey, and refuse to defend your own freedom!

IMPORTANT BELOW:

During a SHTF situation, pain could become an annoyance for some, but unbearable for others.

If doctors are scarce and medicine becomes even scarcer, this one little weed, found all over North America and similar to morphine, could be a saving grace.

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The financial world today runs on a different system’s approach as, say, before the Civil War. The old currency system was based on certificates of deposit of such valuables as jewels, gold and silver. The currency that the deposited valuables could support could be a maximum of seven times the value of the valuables on deposit. This magical number depended on the amount of bearers of certificates of deposit that insisted on having the certificates of deposit exchanged for the valuables themselves.

Banking experience has proven that no more than 1 out 7 holders of certificates of deposit would demand redemption of their certificates. So, as long as the currency backed by the valuables was not inflated more than 7 times no one would notice any effect of the inflated currency and there would be no run on the bank. The inflated certificates of deposit actually stimulated business.

The present system of currency, however, is based on debt. The more money, governments, people and corporations borrow the more money is available in the market to run business and people’s household budgets. If there are no new loans generated and there are no outstanding loans at all there simply is no money in circulation. The Federal Reserve System ( FRS ) would destroy all the currency it could lay its hands on- -and it can lay its hands on most of the money in circulation.

This debt-based currency system was put in effect in the year 1915, together with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution and the federal income tax laws and regulations- -the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ).

The adoption of these three measures in addition to the already adopted Federal Reserve System is self-evident proof of conspiracy of powerful financial figures and elected officials in US government against the people of America. It caused the enslavement of the American people through accumulation of debt owed to our betrayers through a system of currency that automatically, in a rather short time, can bring the nation to irreparable financial ruination. The national debt is beyond control and growing in leaps and bounds daily.

In fact, I heard a televised news cast in the fall of 1995 that announced that Congress had declared the US government bankrupt. The United States of America is now in receivership to the Federal Reserve System. The United States of America still exist in name only but the anchor of the foundation of the US, the free people of America, has been enslaved. The Constitution is now only a means, or a prop of propaganda to make the people believe they still have a nation and that as people they are still free. It is a lie.

Without free people there simply is no United States of America.

What does debt stand for? It stands for a measure of enslavement to the entity a person owes the debt to; especially when one is unable to repay the debt! How did we, the people, get into this enormous debt? The debt was created from absolutely nothing.

For example, say, you ask a bank for a $1000.00 loan. The bank may not really have this amount of money in deposit. But that is no problem; the bank simply requests that $1000.00 in bills must be printed. This takes a little time. This period of time happens to coincide pretty well with the time it takes for your request to be approved. But on what authority is the money printed?

There are no valuables to back the money that was printed. What really backed the request to print the money is your guarantee to pay back the money plus interest over a certain amount of time. You, as borrower, ‘is’ that authority; yet, you are stuck having to pay the interest on the loan, you are also stuck to make the promised payments on time and also stuck with having the property you purchased through the use of that loan foreclosed on you when you default. Not only did you guarantee to pay back the money you asked for, but your guarantee also allowed new currency to be printed and also gave the bank authority to have more money printed than you asked for. See, you must pay the interest on money the bank created out of thin air on your authority.

How was currency created after 1915? Debt-based money came in circulation because government got the nation instantly into an expensive war about a cause that truly did not concern us at all and government never paid back the money it borrowed. After that war US government got the nation involved in any war it could deceive the people to help it fight. Also, government regularly overruns its budget wantonly and thus needs to borrow on a big scale. It allows enormous trade deficits every year that it never intends to pay back either. You can see that US government deliberately destroyed the liberty and financial independence of the nation and of the people over the last century.

How did the wars the US got involved in get into being? These wars were planned behind the scenes by US government and its conspirator the FRS and the governments of the opposing nation(s). Then, the people were fooled to support government’s promoted wars through blatant systems of lies/propaganda so bizarre that it goes beyond people’s ability to conceive and understand. The people believed their governing officials and helped fight the wars. The people were herded through clever and deceitful propaganda to fight wars that even though America won on the battle fields yet caused them to lose their national and personal freedoms through the accumulation of debts these wars caused.

I always compare these planned wars between peoples of different nations and cultures to cock fights in arenas where the cocks are enraged against each other to fight to the death of one of them. Truly, there is no difference. Nations of people are like fighting cocks/roosters that fight wars for the pleasure of the powers that own them and that plan and control every event of importance in the world.

News broadcasts are means of spreading propaganda that binds the minds of the masses to the will of the hidden government. It is said that propaganda forms the attitude of the people targeted by the propaganda and makes willing robots of them to do the bidding of those who plan and execute the systems of propaganda- -government.

These three measures enacted in 1915 go hand in hand to form a system of enslavement. The 16th amendment and the income tax are the tools to control and enforce the system of debt-based currency. A decade earlier US government allowed the establishment of a privately-controlled debt-based banking system. In the decade preceding the enactment of the actual debt-based currency, all the requirements, laws and rules necessary to run an effective debt-based currency were worked out behind the scenes so that upon adoption of the above mentioned three measures the system became immediately in enforced effect. It took some fifteen years to remove the bulk of the value-based currency from circulation. The planned great economical depression of 1929 saw to it that the remainder of value-based currency was removed as well.

At the end of the hall leading to all the conference centers in Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina is an enlarged photo of the victory dinner showing a great hall in this hotel and many of the members of this conspiracy celebrating their victory of the official adoption by Congress and the people of these three measures! This photo cannot possibly show any other interpretation. The subscript says they ere all from Washington, DC.

It must be noted that the Federal Reserve System and its board of supervisors is beyond the control and supervision of US government. It is an entirely independent institution based on a privately controlled trust. The directors of the system are the trustees of the trust. This board of trustees works for the beneficiaries of the trust. It is not generally known who these trustees are; but be sure they exist.

The Federal Reserve System was inaugurated on the promise that the system would stabilize and regulate US business and the currency. The system is known as “a guided economy”. As we have experienced over almost a hundred years, the Federal Reserve Board did not live up to its agreements on which the system was based. This board of Trustees is merely working out its own secret agenda without any regard to business and people.

It is a well-known principle among bankers and financiers that the entity that controls the currency of a nation controls the power in that nation. So, the people lost liberty and control over government by government transferring control of our currency to deceitful, independent private parties.

This, again, proves the utter fallacy of democracy. You as voters are so cunningly deceived by your politicians that your vote works against you rather than for you. You are so ignorant of what you are doing, politically, that by voting you prove to be your own worst enemy- -because you vote in total ignorance of the power and cunning of forces behind the scenes.

This whole scenario reminds me strongly of the scenario that played itself off in paradise between Woman and the serpent. There is no doubt in my mind that US government is a venomous serpent as well. US government deceived the people as perfectly as the serpent deceived Woman in paradise.

Artificially created economic depressions or economic recessions are the cause that huge corporations like major car companies, airlines and food companies go belly-up and are taken over by foreign-owned concerns.

That is the way the physical universe has been run as long as human beings were entered into it. You always are your own worst enemy because you act without ever knowing what really is going on. You never know what you are doing and what the long-term consequences are of you actions. The reason, of course, is deceit perpetrated in your trust of others who pretend to be trustworthy but, instead, are cunning, calculated liars.

You can create currency also. If you receive a check from A you can make over the check to B and he can do so to C. This is the honest way because no one charges interest. The FRS does. There is the viper in the grass.

In the physical environment what you believe seems true until you find out (if you are lucky) that you have been duped again. There are so incredibly many schemes of lies out there that you cannot possible understand what you are doing at any given moment. You literally act in total darkness.

This, by the way, is so for everyone- -the deceivers and the deceived because through reincarnations you will constantly exchange roles like in a game of musical chairs. The reason for this is for your soul to learn and understand spiritual ramifications of truths you spurned when your souls (your real selves) were fully conscious in true reality. The belief in falsehood will tumble anyone instantly out of the realm of true reality into a fictitious reality that has its anchor in the lies you believe.

Truly, he who controls the currency of a nation and therefore also controls the propaganda system is king; and he who controls the spiritual propaganda system and thereby conditions many spiritual entities is god over them in a realm of spiritual make-believe.

The universe is such a spiritual realm of make-believe; and our deceiver and god is this one who goes by such names as Yahweh, Jehovah, Brahman, Allah, etc. We as soul entities have been taken in by a cunning and deceiving spirit, and we were led away from true reality into a virtual realm of make-believe. We, all, are there now- -in physical reality, captives in the only hell there is.

In order to immediately create debt-based currency US government deliberately engaged the United States in World War I to create an excuse for government to borrow huge sums of money. It was the beginning of the US National debt- -a debt which is owed to the Federal Reserve System. World War I was the earnest beginning of circulation of debt-based currency.

The inflated value of the currency based on debt is, I am not really sure, also several times the active debt outstanding. US government farmed out responsibility for our monetary system under a set of agreements in contract to which the Federal Reserve System operates. The inflation of the debt-based currency is controlled by clauses in this contract. This inflated currency stimulates more business and, supposedly, does not cause unnecessary inflation in prices or shortages of products.

The Great Financial Crash of 1929 was deliberately engineered and caused by the Federal Reserve System ( FRS ) to remove value-based currency from circulation and to create a dire need for business and private citizens to borrow money to further business and household needs- -a currency now based on debt.

The financial crash of 1929 also gave government the opportunity to establish the Social Security System to, mostly, guarantee government-sponsored retirement payments to everyone who retired from a full life time of work, and it also created systems of corporate entity identifying numbers and private citizens’ identification numbers- -in the latter case we call these numbers social security numbers. Originally, this number was very private and no one could coerce you to reveal it, but today almost all financial and corporate institutions will demand this number in order to be employed or to receive financial services.

This assigned social security number, for government purposes, replaces a person’s given name and family name. Government, and by that I mean the Federal Reserve System, knows you only by this number. The major impact of the Social Security System for everyone is that a person’s status of free citizens was voluntarily changed to “ward of the state”- -comparable to number-identified life stock on a ranch. By the state becoming the citizens’ warden government, and by this I mean again the Federal Reserve System through the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ), has been given control and power over all our affairs.

The 2nd WW was deliberately created to give the major nations in the world a means to borrow debt-based currency on grand-scale, to assert national governments’ power and to increase control over the affairs and income of the people.

The Cold War was artificially created in conspiracy with the USSR to allow government to borrow huge funds from the FRS; much of which was given away as foreign aid to many countries and the debts these funds created were never paid off but were just added to the over-all US national debt.

There has never been an entity in the universe that so rampantly and irresponsibly borrowed money and got away with hardly ever paying a penny back as US government. US government simply made the American people responsible for its own irresponsible actions. That is the reason that you are now enslaved to the FRS and International monetary Fund ( IMF) and have the Internal revenue Service ( IRS ) on your backs as your slave manager.

Here again, the national banks are the real but hidden governments of the nations. What we call governments, now-a-days, are management institutions in the service of the privately-held Federal Reserve System//National Banks. I regard the Federal Reserve System as the real government behind the front of US government.

Now, here is the scheme used to create a recession. The Federal reserve System ( FRS ) begins to destroy much more currency than it renews. This creates a shortage of money in the economy. Because of the shortage less new loans are granted and therefore much less new currency is issued. This further decreases the shortage of currency and stops people’s ability to purchase items on credit; which in turn causes a slump in production and services.

Businesses cannot honor their outstanding bills and are forced to lay-off personnel. Many businesses will go into bankruptcy and thus more people are without jobs. Jobless people must default on many loans on TVs, cars, boats, insurances of all kinds, and the many other things people make payments on. These things deepen the depression because the financial institutions do not receive the payments they need to stay in business. This will continue to a point determined by the FRS when most of its goals have been reached.

See, how incredibly easy it is to create an economic depression or recession if you have finagled to secure the power to control a nation’s currency. You can see US government’s unforgivable guilt in this situation.

The point of turn-around of the economy is based on a certain percentage of shrinkage of the over-all domestic money supply. When this point is reached the greatest number of well-established people have lost the major part of their wealth. This was the FRS’ purpose to start the economic recession in the first place.

So, when a nation’s currency is based on debt one can be sure that economic depressions will occur at regular intervals. It, all, is done to allow the master to be master by manipulating the wealth and production of the people in the nation. What, after-all, is the use of being master if one does not exert one’s mastership over the enslaved rabble?

Another serious effect of an economic recession is caused by the Internal Revenue Code ( IRC ) and The Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ). If you make over a $100,000.00 per year you pay a good slice of it in taxes, unless you reinvest much of your earnings in, supposedly, legitimate tax-shelters.

For people on the upward curve of earned income there are some opportunities allowed by the Inter Revenue Service to shelter your earnings from taxes. You are allowed to deduct the interest on the mortgage of your home. Thus many people buy very expensive properties with hardly any down payment. This produces a big deductable item on the income tax forms.

Another example is to buy rental property on which one can make huge write offs for tax purposes. For example, many people buy rental properties requiring big loans to secure title and must spend lots of money in tax-deductible expenses in order to prevent the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) from grabbing their money. These individuals owning personal and rental properties are now extremely vulnerable to a Federal Reserve Board planned recession because home owners and renters have been laid off and are in default on home and rent payments.

Therefore, these people cannot make payments to the lending institution and the properties are foreclosed on by the banks. Many people may be laid-off or see their income potential disappear like snow in the sun. If there are no sales in business the incomes of many white-collar workers are severely affected. This affects their ability to pay their monthly bills.

In a depression huge numbers of property are foreclosed upon and are for sale. Very few can afford to purchase the foreclosed properties because money is extremely tight; and whatever savings one has invested in properties secured by a mortgage then disappear in the nothingness from which the loans were originally pulled.

Financial institutions cannot lend funds because of all the defaults in mortgage loan payments. Financial institutions will thus have huge inventories of cars, boats real estate, etc. that they cannot get rid off without experiencing huge losses. Thus, privately organized banks will go bankrupt as well.

Those holding other kinds of (mortgaged) investments cannot sell them unless at great loss. An economic depression will thus creep around to hurt almost every one.

In the present economic depression US government pumped 1 trillion dollars into the world-wide economy. Where do you think that money came from? It was created and lent from thin air and printed while the trillion dollars debt and the yearly prime rate in interest attached to it were simply added to the US national debt. No problem, Government is the Wizard of OZZ, but it never pays back the loans. So this government’s financial help turns out to be a shorter chain between your leg and the iron ball.

The problem with the debt-based money system is that loaned money is created from thin air but once the loan exists it is regarded as if the debt was underwritten by pure gold. The debt will not evaporate like water from a lake. The water (debt) is frozen and not a molecule of it is allowed to escape. In the example of a lake, water freely comes into it through the process of precipitation; and some of the water collected in the lake is allowed to evaporate to join the mass of water held as vapor in the atmosphere. This is not so with the national debt. It was created from nothing but once it exists as national debt it is like the rocks in the earth. It suddenly acquired real substance- -through a process of financial and reversed book-keeping hocus-pocus.

If you are not in-the-know about these things you will always be betrayed by those in whom you placed your trust and you will be like lambs led to be slaughtered.

This set-up, folks, is what the FRS considers “guided economy”. Every so often those with large savings are separated from their funds like fattened and slaughtered chickens are stripped of their feathers.

Once the goals of their plans have been realized the FRS will expand the money supply and allow business to expand along a calculated upward curve but with a new crowd of potential ‘heavies’ seeking control. When the recession is over most everyone must start over from scratch.

However, another effect of an economic depression is that many formerly financially well-established folks are now dejected, in psychological depression and are as poor as church mice while a new, younger and more vigorous group of entrepreneurs will start to create an abundance of wealth for themselves.

This newly educated bunch of youngsters, having more ambition and guts than those who lost most of their assets, now have the opportunity to become wealthy; and when they consider themselves set for life the FRS creates another economic recession, etc, etc and strips them of their wealth. In the present environment of conspiracy between the FRS and government, no one can win permanently other than the FRS and its beneficiaries. These beneficiaries own the whole set-up and make nothing but profits.

Your financial and psychological fate rests entirely in the might and power of the national bank of your nation and that fate will blossom and wilt before you are of retirement age. The governments of the world, now, are no more than servants of these privately held, untouchable, national banks. You can vote until you appear to have purple and gold in your countenance, but it will do not a single bit of good in controlling the real government of your nation. The true governments of the nations, the national banks, are secure from the vagaries of the voting process. Your vote is worth absolutely nothing!

Today, these national banks are confederated into a single body known as the IMF- -the International Monetary Fund. The people of the world were simply enslaved by their governments to the national banks without anything having been paid for their enslavement. It is a grosser rape than the revolution and communist take-over in Russia and of Negroes uprooted from their native soil and sold into slavery all over the world without anything of value having being paid in return.

The only manner in which I can see redemption from the enslaving grasp of the IMF and its member national banks is when the debt created by the businesses and the people of a country is owned by a truly, people-controlled government (I mean controlled in fact by the people). The system of currency cannot be held by private parties. If we would have this system there would be no purpose to embroil the people in a constant procession of wars and economic recessions.

If the debt is controlled by a truly people-controlled government then the debt can be simply evaporated even as private, debt-based wealth is now evaporated through artificial manipulation of the economy. The national debt could regularly be declared non-existent by government action so that no one will feel a loss, but instead will have a renewed confidence in government. The debt-based currency, after all, exists only to conduct and further business among ourselves. Once the purpose of the nationally granted loans is realized there is no need to keep them on the books.

Debt would then drive the debt-based currency and economy, but debt would not be an enslaving factor because the people are the debtors and the owners of the debt. In truth, in the present system they are the owners of the debt also because the debtors are the underwriters of the creation of the currency. The problem is that the people do not know that. Such a new system would be wholesome and would encourage business and the accumulation of private wealth without hurting anyone.

We would thus no longer encounter the ridiculously high debts the nations owe the national banks. The Federal Reserve System, in fact, would be a valid, accountable department in a servant-based government that is wholly controlled by a governing, voting public. We would again have a republic rather than a useless democracy. Government would be in authentic power without the innumerable criminals that now hide in, around and behind the scenes of government.

Presently, you are physically as enslaved and as totally helpless in your enslavement as the Negro slaves were some two hundred years ago. The slaves in America found their redeemer in President Lincoln and all of you today may have a redeemer in my writings.

My writings will inform you of your physical and spiritual entrapment. I use physical conditions only as examples to show how utterly entrapped we are in our soul entities. Remember, the spiritual realm is for real and thus your soul exists. If your soul is real, what, possibly, can be your physical entity but a nightmare of soul in spirit! Either the physical environment is real or the spiritual environment is real.

The universe cannot be real because everything in it dies, deteriorates or vanishes- -including the world and the heavens that contain it, according to Jesus- -and new things appear in their places. Know that Jesus is right; the universe had a beginning and it certainly will have its end! And no one knows when that will be! Is that not strange? It proves that someone is playing hanky-panky with our spiritual minds.

An example of things that vanish can be a program you are watching on TV. While you are watching the program the electricity goes out and the program you are watching vanishes into absolute nothingness. The universe is as contrived an entity as the TV program you were watching. It seems to be there but it can vanish without warning.

I am a spiritual redeemer. I received my understanding from Jesus of Nazareth’s words in context with some of the writings of Moses given in the beginning of the book of Genesis and through an awful lot of personal study, experience and insight gained in this life. Jesus’ teaching could not redeem us before because we as soul-entities were too engrossed in being human to ever be aware of our reality-shattering state of spiritual enslavement, delusion or even aberration.

Our spiritual existence has been hidden in betrayals of reality within a virtual reality within more virtual realities. In our spiritual existence we have lost our identity in true reality and are now possibly lost forever in virtual mind delusions. The god we know as humans and as souls is our deceiver and enslaver, even as the financial wizards in conspiracy with governments, presently, are our deceivers and enslavers.

I was spiritually guided to understand the meaning and purpose of the utter powerlessness of physical life and I have been given time to inform you of your condition. I gave it all to you in books and articles. I have not much time left. I am in old age and I will not be among you very much longer.

Some of you will heed my words and find financial liberty in this life and spiritual liberty as souls in spirit. The rest of you will eventfully go down, together with all the utterly spiritually uninformed into the hell of irredeemable spiritual existence as wild and hunted animals in a virtual setting of physical nature- -the possibility of spiritual understanding and redemption lost forever.

The greatest problem we have as humans is that we mistake our real enemies for friends and our true friends as enemies or as people one must not take too seriously; and, also, that we confuse our true spiritual father with a deceiver.

That is because our enemies have silken tongues but our true friends tell us the truth.

Those who will never come in contact with my writings will have an excuse because they never knew any better; but readers of my writings who disregard the truth of their condition presented in my articles and books are without excuse. Upon your physical expiration, whether you are of the clergy, a lay person, an atheist or a powerful financial wizard, there will be no help for you ever. Your religious beliefs or your by-propaganda-ingrained personal stances toward spiritual reality and toward physical life form your sole personal and spiritual prisons.

My writings deserve your full attention, consideration and reflection in reaching a decision about your fate as a conscious entity physically and as a lost soul spiritually.

Amen!

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Many Prepper and survivalist web sites contain an abundance of material about the likelihood of gun confiscation in the aftermath of a major disaster. The general premise is that government agencies and/or military units will be going door to door after a declaration of martial law to forcibly deprive you of weapons and ammunition. You resist – you die, or end up in a prison cell on the back side of some undocumented FEMA camp in the middle of nowhere; or so the theory goes.

Unfortunately, the distinction between local or regional disasters, such as a hurricane or earthquake, and a wider SHTF or “end of the world as we know it” event, are rarely made. In any historic disaster that you can name, government has always continued to function at both the state and federal levels. A varied collection of mostly nameless bureaucratic agencies have always been able to respond to a recognized need. The degree to which they were timely in their response, or even effective, is not an issue. The point is that a constituted and functional government (the people who you think you elected), were responding to a recognized need because they had a political motivation or statutory obligation to do so.

Most frequently cited in Prepper articles is the warning that gun confiscation is an inevitable consequence of a declaration of martial law. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, law enforcement personnel were, in fact, going door to door to confiscate firearms. There were numerous highly qualified Search and Rescue teams that refused to go to New Orleans because they were not allowed to carry firearms for their own protection.

If the entire system were to suddenly go sideways, what is the probability of an enforceable martial law declaration, followed by gun confiscation? For example, if a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) event took out the entire national power grid could you realistically expect an army platoon to break through your front door in search of firearms, ammo and surplus food? I think not.

In order for martial law to be effective, you must first have a means of declaring it to the general populace. Second, you must have a means of enforcing it. The absence of either factor renders the declaration a moot point. Even without a means of communication, citizens will realize that a major catastrophe has happened. If there are no lights on at city hall, it won’t take a genius to figure out that civilization has gone south. Without a means of communication (TV, radio, Internet, posters on telephone poles, etc.) there is no way the general populace would know that martial law has been declared.

Second, if the command and control communications infrastructure has been disabled, government will have no ability to issue notifications or orders to law enforcement agencies (federal, state, county or local). By using the term “infrastructure,” I refer to computer based network communications, the ability to transmit communiqués via radio, the ability to contact and muster enforcement personnel, and essential coordination of resources. Stated a bit more directly, Fort Bliss will not dispatch a battalion of troops from the 1st Armored Division to Albuquerque, New Mexico (a distance of 225 air miles) to confiscate your firearms. They won’t be doing it in Humvees, M1-A1 tanks or Blackhawk helicopters. And they most assuredly won’t be on foot.

Finally, the enforcement of martial law (including gun confiscation) presupposes that county and local law enforcement personnel will be willing to carry it out on a national scale. It is one thing to suppress looters and arsonists, but requiring the military or state/county law enforcement to confiscate 350 million legally owned firearms is an entirely different proposition; especially if they are faced with determined resistance. Importantly, there are an increasing number of county sheriffs across the U.S. that have gone on record to refuse cooperation with federal initiatives that would lead to gun confiscation.

Doing house to house searches – whether vacant or occupied – is a very time-consuming and labor intensive process; not to mention the risks involved. Based on national averages, patrol officers number about 2 per 1,000 residents across the country. In rural communities, that number may be as low as one per thousand. In crime ravaged cities like Chicago, Washington DC and Baltimore, it can exceed four per thousand. When you consider housing and population density in urban areas, gun confiscation would be a daunting task to assign to any police force.

Excluding overseas deployments, the number of active duty Army and Marines in the contiguous U.S. is significantly less than 500,000. That is less than 1.5% of the entire population. The number of Army/Marine personnel that would be trained and equipped to deprive you of your personal defense weapons would actually be less than one per 10,000 population. Within a matter of days, every state-side military installation will be in the same situation that you will face: No gasoline, no diesel or jet fuel for vehicles or aircraft, no resupply for commissaries or mess halls, and no direction from the federal or state branches of government. They will be eating MREs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If the grid is down for you, it will be down for them, too. If you don’t have fuel, or if the semiconductor circuits in your vehicle have been fried, do you think the military will escape a similar fate? You can think of it as an ‘equal opportunity’ form of calamity.

A More Probable Scenario

In my view, the disintegration of government and the abandonment of Constitutional rule of law would rapidly lead to a collapse of civil order. Without a functioning government, looting, arson and home invasions would erupt within hours – if not minutes – in major population centers. Any form of effective law enforcement (civil or military) would quickly evaporate. Instead, as the realization that civilization as we know it has come to an end, local communities and individuals would institute their own versions of martial law, but in a distinctly reverse manner.

The important distinction is that communities would be relying on citizen’s firearms to prevent being overwhelmed by refugees and looters. In other words, if you are inside the compound or town limits, and have possession of a firearm, you will be a defensive asset to the community. Moreover, local law enforcement will likely be aiding your collective defense. The enemy will be on the outside of the barricade.

In a total SHTF scenario, I believe that you are far more likely to be engaged in defending your family, property or survival community from raiders than you would be from government-backed confiscators of your weapons. The more tangible danger is from a still-functioning government that has abandoned Constitutional rule of law.

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These days, it has become all too common for people to reach for a pill bottle or call the doctor anytime something goes wrong, or even for the smallest scrape. The simple, wacky home remedies of our grandparents, those weird concoctions formed from everyday household goods, are often mocked by today’s medical establishment. But surprisingly, the truth is that our grandparents actually knew a lot more about the world than we give them credit for, and many of these old-fashioned folk remedies actually work. Not just that, but many of them work better than the synthetic pharmaceuticals that so many people stuff their bodies with today.

Here are 40 weird, wacky, but shockingly effective home remedies that still work today, and would make grandma proud.

1. Use Garlic and Olive Oil for Athlete’s Foot

Everyone knows about the many health benefits of garlic, but did you know that it can fix your athlete’s foot problem in a jiffy? Just mince some garlic cloves, mix them with natural olive oil, and then use bit of cotton to rub this mixture onto the affected area between the toes.

2. Potato Slices for Headaches

Headaches and/or migraines can ruin even the best day, but there is a weird natural solution that works: potato slices. Just cut a few slices from a raw potato, soak them in a very thin cloth, and apply them to your forehead or directly to the temples.

3. Ease Cuticle Infections with Vinegar

Done too much manicuring? Cuticles all torn up and infected? Make a glass of vinegar and warm water, then put your fingers in it for about 15 minutes. Repeat this procedure once a day or so until the infection fades away.

4. Use Vinegar to Cure Swimmer’s Ear

There’s nothing that ruins a good day at the beach like coming home with swimmer’s ear. But when your grandparents told you to drop some vinegar in your ears, they weren’t kidding. The acidic properties of vinegar can kill off that awful swimmer’s ear bacteria, leaving you feeling like yourself again. Just take out some white vinegar, dilute it with distilled water, and put three drops into the problematic ear, three times a day, until the problem fades.

5. Olive Oil for Eczema

Feeling itchy already? Eczema can make anyone grow crazy. But olive oil, which is full of antioxidants and often used as an ingredient in professional skin creams, isn’t just good for athlete’s foot: it can ease the symptoms of eczema as well. Simply rub some olive oil onto the eczema-affected areas of your skin, and it should help quite a bit.

6. Fix Hiccups with a Spoonful of Sugar

Yes, seriously. The legends are true. Don’t get too overzealous with it, because diabetes isn’t something to mess around with, but this old-fashioned trick will halt the hiccups in their tracks. The reason why is because the behavior we call “hiccups” are actually just spasms of your diaphragm, so having a spoon of dry sugar will throw off the nerve muscles and cure their agitation.

7. Get rid of warts with duct tape

It sounds crazy, but it works. Instead of going to all the work to get your warts frozen off, just covered them with duct tape. After cleaning a wart off, just apply a strip of the tape to the affected area, and then keep it there for three days. After that, remove, rub the wart area with a pumice stone, and then apply new tape.  Continue this process every three days until the wart goes the way of the dinosaurs.

8. Treat Acne with Coconut Oil

Coconut oil might seem like the cool new kid on the block, but it’s actually an old-timer that’s been around since the 1800s. In addition to many other uses, coconut oil is an effective treatment for acne, since its antibiotic properties prevent further breakouts. Just apply coconut oil to the skin, maybe mixing it with a little raw honey.

9. Have a Little Yogurt for That Bad Breath

Bad breath, officially known as halitosis, is a terrible thing to live with. But the cure for it is right there in your fridge: yogurt. At least two servings a day of this probiotic wonder, ideally a plain brand with no sugar, changes the landscape of your tongue so that it won’t breed any more the bad bacteria that produces that distinctive stink.

10. Deal with bug bites by using toothpaste

Well, not technically the toothpaste itself, but rather, the peppermint oil inside the toothpaste: if you have the pure peppermint oil itself, that’s even more effective. Either way, applying peppermint oil to a bug bite—even if it’s just through dabbing on a little toothpaste – will immediately reduce the raw itchiness we all know too well.

11. Use Licorice to Eliminate Corns

Yes, licorice, everyone’s least favorite candy. But the one thing worse than licorice is having a corn on your toe. If you soak some licorice with oil, apply it all to the affected area, then wrap it tight under plastic wrap (and maybe a sock) for 6-8 hours—for instance, overnight—this will cause the licorice to soften the corn.

12. Ease Your Hangover with Apple Cider Vinegar

Drinking might be fun, but hangovers aren’t fun for anyone. But when you used to see grandpa downing a shot of apple cider vinegar after a night with his buddies, he knew what he was doing. Apple cider vinegar balances the pH levels in your stomach after a little too much alcohol throws it off. Just gulp down a teaspoon of this vinegar, or a small shot-glass. If you can’t take it straight, dilute it with some water.

13. Constipation with beets

The human body needs to eliminate waste, and when it gets all bunched up, major discomfort ensues. One home solution you may have heard from your grandparents was to eat some fresh-steamed beets, then drink the water they were steamed in. This should clear out your colon like magic. Just be warned that when you do go, your stools or urine may be bright red: nothing to worry about, just the natural dye of the beets.

14. Vodka for stinky feet

Having trouble with foot odor? Get some vodka. No, we’re not suggesting that you get drunk and avoid the problem. The key is that alcoholic is an antiseptic, which means it eliminates the fungus that causes foot odor, and dries your feet out. Just soak a thin cloth in some vodka, swipe your foot down, and feel the smell go away.

15. Mix Cumin, Honey, Cinnamon and Ginger for Diarrhea

A bad case of the runs can keep you up all night. Instead of taking drugs that will simply constipate you, thereby causing more stomach pains, a better natural remedy is to combine a teaspoon of cumin, and the same portion of honey, cinnamon, and ginger into a paste that you can drink.

16. Lemons for an Earache

Pain in the ears can be soothed by the application of freshly-squeezed lemons. Just squeeze a lemon onto a Q-tip, and delicately rub this just inside the ear to restore pH balance.

17. Stinging Nettle for Hair Loss

You can’t force hair to regrow once it’s already gone, but you can slow down the rate of hair loss through the use of stinging nettle, an herb often used for tea. Drinking stinging nettle tea a few times a day should help, and you can also massage stinging nettle itself in your scalp.

18. Cure Nausea with Olives

Whether it’s from motion sickness or an unpleasant sight, the familiar (but unpleasant) side effects associated with nausea can be cured by eating olives, due to the tannin inside them.

19. Potatoes for Spider Bites

If a spider managed to sink its teeth into you, ease the itching and swelling by shredding a potato, wrapping the pieces in cloth, and applying to the bite area. Note, this is a treatment for symptoms of a regular, non-deadly bite: if the bite comes from a more deadly spider, such as a black widow, seek immediate medical attention.

20. Raw Honey for Chapped Lips

Don’t ever waste your money on Chapstick again. Much has been said about the healing properties of raw, organic honey, but if your lips are chapped, you can simply apply honey to the affected area—rub it on, just as you would Chapstick—and it will do the job nicely, and taste better to boot. Just make sure the honey is both raw and organic.

21. Garlic for Allergies

For a more natural antihistamine when your nasal allergies act up, eat lots of garlic, whether it’s straight bulbs or slices on crackers. Garlic contains a lot of the antioxidant quercetin, which eases allergy symptoms. If there’s no garlic in the pantry, onions work as well.

22. Buttermilk and Ginger for Diarrhea

If you don’t have cumin on hand, another weird-but-effective home remedy for diarrhea is to mix half of a teaspoon of dry ginger into a cup of buttermilk, and drink it.

23. Treat Styes with Potatoes

If you haven’t noticed, potatoes are a lot more powerful than people realize. If you get a stye on your eye, just grate a potato, wrap the gratings in a cloth, and press to the affected area to ease inflammation.

24. Avoid Mosquitoes with Garlic

If you don’t want to get eaten alive with mosquitoes, enjoy a garlic-rich diet, because mosquitoes are totally repelled by garlic. For further protection, rub garlic oil on your skin. If it’s already too late, you can also ease the stinging of the bites with garlic as well.

25. Yams for Menopause

To up your dosage of vitamin A, lower your cholesterol, and add more antioxidants to your diet, start incorporating yams—real yams, not sweet potatoes—into your regular daily diet. This will help with common menopause symptoms.

26. Apples Help the Bowels

Apples are high in pectin, a naturally occurring fiber that both bulks up and softens stools. This means that apples are an effective treatment for both diarrhea and constipation. Just make sure to eat the skin too, which contains valuable ursolic acid.

27. Banana Peel for Poison Ivy

While bananas won’t prevent you from getting the allergic rash that 85% of the population contracts from touching poison ivy, they can help. Rub the inside of a banana peel against poison ivy rash for relief from the pain and itchiness.

28. Honey for Acid Reflux

As soon as the symptoms of acid reflux begin affecting you, swallow three spoons of honey, and it should help you achieve better digestion.

29. Blackstrap molasses for Constipation

If you suffer from frequent constipation, try injecting a little blackstrap molasses into your diet, whether as a coffee additive or an extra ingredient in cookies. This molasses should ease constipation, but be careful not to over-indulge, because too much molasses will increase constipation.

30. Pine Syrup for Sore Throats

You know what helps a sore throat? Pine needles. Yes, really. To make pine syrup, collect a cup of freshly-washed pine needles, and thoroughly blend them. Meanwhile, boil water, corn syrup, and a bit of salt, mix this with the needles, then steep for a few hours. Keep this syrup in the refrigerator for at least a month, then keep it on hand forever to treat sore throats.

31. DIY Cough Syrup

If you want to make a good cough syrup from the ingredients of your pantry, mix together ¼ teaspoon ground ginger, 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 tablespoon of honey, and a few spoons of water. Mix it all together, and have 1-3 teaspoons to ease coughing symptoms.

32. Garlic for toothache

Nothing will keep you up at night like a bad cavity or an exposed nerve. While garlic won’t cure the underlying issue, chewing on garlic at night, particularly chewing whole cloves in the affected area, will ease pain tremendously.

33. Put on Wet Socks to Treat a Cold

Hear us out for a minute. To treat the symptoms of a common cold, begin by soaking your feet in hot water for at least three minutes – or just taking a bath. Meanwhile, soak a pair of your socks in ice water. Put the socks on your feet, cover them up with a pair of wool socks, and then go to bed. As you sleep with these horribly cold feet, the blood vessels will constrict, pushing nutrients up into your body to push out the infection.

34. Fix Dry Skin

To soften dry skin, break down two bananas and mix them with a bit of honey. Apply this paste to the skin, let it sit for about 20 minutes, and then wash it off, and your skin should feel softer.

35. Teabags for Burns

Get a cool-temperature, wet teabag, of any tea, and place it directly on the burned area. This won’t fix the burn, but it will relieve the pain almost immediately.

36. Oil Pulling

This might have become a trend recently, but it’s actually an old practice that our grandparents learned from their grandparents. Basically, enhance your dental routine by taking a spoonful of coconut oil – though other oils work as well – and swishing it in your mouth for five minutes a day, specifically pulling it through the teeth, and then spit it out into the toilet. The oil will “pull” all of the toxins out of the mouth, allowing you to spit them out in one go. When used in addition to standard brushing and flossing, oil pulling will help digestion, reduce gingivitis, prevent receding gums, get rid of bad breath, strengthen teeth, and much, much more.

37. Help Eczema with an Oatmeal Bath

If the horrendous itchiness of eczema still has you down, you can hugely reduce the itchiness by following your grandmother’s old advice taking a bath of oatmeal. There’s a reason that so many lotions and pharmaceutical eczema treatments contain oatmeal as an ingredient: it really works! For a home solution, just make a bath for yourself, fill it with colloidal oatmeal, and then soak for a while.

38. Stop Your Snoring

Is your snoring annoying your wife or husband? Try drinking a glass of warm milk with a teaspoon of turmeric powder added to it before bed, and hear your partner’s relief.

39. Basil Leaves and Ginger for Fever

Fevers are the body’s way of pushing out an infection, but when it’s time to cut back on the heat, here’s a home solution. Crush some ginger and basil leaves together into  paste, then add a teaspoon of honey. Squeeze out the liquid, and then take a drink ever four hours or so.

40. Soak Golden Raisins in Gin for Arthritis

If there’s one thing that afflicted so many of our grandparents, it was the terrible swelling pains of arthritis. But they had a home remedy that still works today. Get some golden raisins, soak them in gin, and let it sit overnight until all of the gin has been soaked up. After this is done, eat about ten raisins a day. While this won’t fix the underlying problems of arthritis, it will greatly ease the symptoms.

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If you still think “The Great Reset” is a conspiracy theory and cow farts are dangerous to the environment, it’s time to wake up.

Government leaders worldwide have bought into the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) delusional plan (The Great Reset) to gain control of us, our land, our food supply, and common sense—first through their failed pandemic plans and now through their climate change agenda.

More than 10,000 farms are being shut down under a 1.61 billion dollar Dutch scheme to buy out farmers so that the Netherlands can fall in line with the WEF and United Nations’ “Agenda 2030.”

The buyout program will initially impact 3,000 privately-owned farms deemed to emit too much nitrogen. Other farms will then be allowed to apply to receive 120% of their farm’s buyout value. The government will also offer to buy out dairy, pig, and poultry farmers—giving them 100% of their farm’s value in exchange for shutting down. The program may become mandatory if enough people do not volunteer to turn over their farms and livestock.

Clearly, this is not about the environment, eradicating poverty, or sustainable agriculture.

Meanwhile, Irish farmers are revolting over calls to kill 65,000 to 200,000 dairy cows (depending on your source) over the next few years so the country can meet its “climate goals.” The result will yield higher grocery prices and food shortages.

Why would anyone do something so stupid? To buy out livestock and “reduce nitrogen pollution,” or so they say.

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According to Reuters, the Dutch need to reduce excess nitrogen levels, caused in part by “years of intensive farming” despite the fact they’ve already reduced nitrogen emissions by 8%. (This is where we pretend nitrogen is not an essential nutrient for plant growth and, by extension, life—and that animal farts are more dangerous nitrogen sources than the toxic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers governments have promoted for decades.)

If you’re wondering how this makes sense, don’t bother because it doesn’t. The reality is that the Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world and the top meat exporter in Europe.

The Netherlands was hand-selected by none other than Klause Schwab at the WEF to be the guinea pig so that other countries, like the U.S., would follow suit. There’s just one problem; we have something called the U.S. Constitution.

(If you haven’t figured out how the first amendment right to free speech and the second amendment right to bear arms are huge barriers to the WEF, World Health Organization, and UN’s global agenda sweeping through Europe, I’m not sure what to tell you.)

Don’t worry, though, Schwab and his dear friends at the WEF, including Bill Gates, have planned to put the world on a delicious diet of insects. We won’t even miss meat, milk, cheese, bacon, eggs, or chicken. We will be too busy loading up on crickets to miss the steak.

With President Biden’s “pledge” that the U.S. will be at “net zero emissions” by 2050 and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry’s warped belief that “cutting farm emissions” are vital to fighting the established science of “climate change,” you should prepare yourself for the fact we’re next.

USA Today was quick to defend Kerry’s recent statements at a climate summit speech on the matter. They claim he plans to curb emissions through innovation, not through buyouts; yet, this is the same administration that promised not to mandate COVID-19 vaccines and then forced experimental shots on almost every American.

Of course, the U.S. doesn’t have to buy out farmers. Bill Gates can buy up farmland, and carbon taxes can make it so difficult for farmers to do what they do that they’ll bow out before the government has to spend a dime on a buyout.

You should prepare to fight back, protest, and support your local farmers now because what you see happening in the Netherlands and Ireland is a look into this country’s not-so-distant future.

If you control the food supply, you control the people.

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It is fine that some people want to change how we generate power for the grid upon which we all depend, from fossil fuels to something cleaner.

We can understand how some people, gaslighted by a relentless bombardment of climate doomsaying from government and media and those entities that control them, might believe there is some sort of crisis going on that renders the need for change quite urgent.

Even if one has not bought into the climate hysteria, it is reasonable to consider we should opt for the cleanest possible means of powering our civilisation, out of consideration for and duty towards our planetary home and succeeding  generations who will be trying to live in it.

A cleaner, cheaper, more environmentally friendly and WORKABLE source of energy would be desirable.

Unfortunately, the more you look closely into the alternatives being foisted off on us by the dimwits running our government and the psychopaths running the dimwits, the more you discover that they are neither clean, nor environmentally friendly, nor even remotely capable of providing the power needed to keep  the lights on and the civilisation running.

It comes as a shock, to put it mildly, to discover that the aforementioned dimwits have not done their homework and are seeking to abandon existing workable resources  and switch to resources that are clearly catastrophically inadequate! It’s a bit like scrapping the BMW and buying a pedal car, without having first LOOKED to discover what’s under its bonnet.

It takes a bit to get one’s head around the level of stupidity and irresponsibility of which our civilisation’s mis-managers are guilty.

That existing resources would be wound down, dismantled and switched off without first verifying there is an ADEQUATE replacement for them, displays a level of brain-dead ineptitude that beggars belief because it is a policy that GUARANTEES our economic collapse and cold and starvation for the millions saddled with such inept governments.

Of course, there are efforts to justify the reckless stupidity by telling everyone hysterically there is an environmental crisis going on requiring urgent action. But urgent action doesn’t mean action so reckless as to amount to national suicide.

Nuclear or wave power would be, in our opinion, cleaner and far more workable alternatives to oil, gas and coal but these are being studiously ignored – as if someone has deliberately chosen and is pushing the most disastrously unworkable solutions they could come up with. And that of course amounts to an act of war designed to crush and wreck targeted nations

Anyway, a case in point is wind power – if one delves into it a bit and looks past the PR blather, one discovers that, well, it is not all it is cracked up to be, not by a long shot and if  we rely on it, we’re dead.

Offshore wind may not reduce CO2 emissions

There is a common assumption that offshore wind electricity generation greatly reduces CO2 emissions. In fact this is the primary justification for the horrendous cost and adverse impact of these offshore megaprojects.

As with many green assumptions, this may well be false. First, given the way power generation actually works the reduction in fossil fuel emissions may not be all that great. In fact offshore wind could actually increase fossil fuel emissions. This is explained below.

Let’s take New Jersey as an example because they aspire to be the leader in offshore wind development. Their stated goal is a whopping 11,000 MW of offshore generating capacity, at a cost of something like $100 billion. If reducing CO2 emissions is the justification for this incredible cost, there had better be a lot of reduction. Turns out there may be very little, which makes the project very expensive, or even an increase which would make it worse than worthless.

On the generation side there are several factors to consider. To begin with New Jersey already shut down its 2,000 MW of coal fired power so those potential emission reductions are gone. Even worse half of their present generation is nuclear, which has no CO2 emissions. So if wind replaces some nuclear output there is no reduction.

The remaining half of the generation is gas fired and here things get interesting, as well as complex.

Keep in mind that the gas fired system is designed to generate when people need electricity. Wind on the other hand generates when the wind blows. It generates most when the wind blows hard, less when it blows less, and none when it blows low. Roughly speaking output increases linearly from no power at 10 mph to full power at 30 mph.

These are sustained wind speeds, not gusts, so 30 mph is rare. On the other hand less than 10 mph is relatively common, with no power produced, sometimes for days at a time. In between what happens is that the wind and power output go up and down, up and down. A 20% change in output in an hour is common.

These irregular wind oscillations will have a profound impact on gas power emissions. This is because there are two very different kinds of gas fired power plant. These are called, respectively, the simple cycle and the combined cycle plant.

A simple cycle plant is a generator driven by a combustion turbine. This turbine is like a jet engine running on natural gas. These plants are relatively inefficient, with an efficiency of 30 to 38% depending on how old they are

Combined cycle uses a combustion turbine too, but it then uses the extremely hot exhaust to boil water that in turn runs a steam turbine generator, so there are two different generators run in combination, hence the name. Combined cycle plants are much more efficient than simple cycle at around 60%.

Simple cycle plants feature quick start so they are used mostly for meeting peak needs when power usage spikes. For this reason they are often called peakers. Peak need is unlikely to coincide with strong wind, especially heat waves and cold snaps which are often marked by very low to no wind. Both weather extremes are often caused by stagnant high pressure systems.

Thus it is unlikely that offshore wind will do much to reduce the peaker emissions. The coal emissions are gone, nuclear has no emissions and the peaker emissions mostly remain, so this just leaves the combined cycle emissions for possible reduction.

Here the constant variability of wind creates a huge obstacle to emission reduction. The problem is that the huge amount of water in the combined cycle boiler takes a long time to heat up, and once heated the combustion turbine must run flat out to keep it boiling.

This is not a rapid response technology, in fact it is designed to run more or less steadily. It cannot ramp up and down in time to match the wind’s rapidly ramping down and up.

There are two ways the combined cycle system can be run in order to supply the erratic need created by the oscillating output of the wind generators. Unfortunately both are highly inefficient, meaning a lot more gas must be burned per unit of electricity produced, which creates a lot more emissions.

One way is to keep the steam pressure up during the time the wind output is high, which means burning a lot of gas with little or no generation. The other way is to shut down the steam system and just run as a simple cycle combustion turbine. This burns a lot more gas than was the prior-to-wind case when the combined cycle unit ran relatively steadily.

In short adding a lot of intermittent offshore wind to the generation mix radically degrades the efficiency of the gas fired generation. The result is that CO2 emissions are not likely to be greatly reduced and can even increase.

What actually happens is a research question I have not seen studied. A lot depends on the specifics of the intermittency, which likely vary from year to year and place to place.

The point is that if the primary justification for building enormously expensive offshore wind megaprojects is to reduce CO2 emissions then there may be no justification.

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